540 LETTERS TO DARWIN AND OTHERS. [1865, 



So Palmerston is gone. A fine specimen of a John 

 Bull he was, a very typical specimen. We Yankees 

 can't help admiring and liking him, though not for 

 any good he ever did us. But as for his successor, he 

 is a prig, a juiceless stick. 



Don't you think Adams pays him back nicely for 

 proposing that they should sit down and rejoice to- 

 gether over the abolition of slavery ? Just see how 

 the world has moved. Turn back to Russell's lecture 

 to be read to Mr. Lincoln on occasion of his procla- 

 mation of emancipation ! 



Good-by, my dear, good fellow, and recover health 

 as fast as ever you can. 



Yours affectionately, A. GRAY. 



TO CHARLES WRIGHT. 



CAMBRIDGE, June 28, 1865. 



I am not going on so any more. A letter from me 

 you shall have. To be sure I have had none from you 

 since you sailed, but that is no matter. College and 

 garden and herbarium work together are enough to 

 drive one mad ; but now the college work begins to 

 hold up, and will soon be over. And as to herbarium, 

 Fendler has at length promised to come at the end of 

 the summer and help me all winter at least, perhaps 

 longer. . . . 



Oh, yes ! I have yours of " Habana," May 9th, 

 with your shipboard studies on the variations of 

 Chapman and Grisebach. Well, sometimes one 

 wrong, sometimes the other ; sometimes a difference 

 as to who the author of a book is, Michaux, whose 

 name is on the work, Richard, who wrote it incog. 



I inclose my last from Grisebach. I am hoping to 

 arrange to have the catalogue of Cuba plants printed 



